In several years, the construction industry struggled to recruit women to the classically male-dominated sector. And now see the efforts out to finally produce results.
In the last year was adopted nearly a thousand women to the programmes within the field of civil engineering and construction technology, shows the SCB-statistics. More than one in three applicants is a woman.
the Increase is mainly among the managers, but also technicians, designers and engineers. Out on the constructions, it is still very large mansdominans but it has become much better in the professional field and will be even better when these girls graduate, ” says Elin Kebert, an expert in the supply of skills in the trade association, the Swedish construction federation.
better than other male-dominated professions, in the field of technology, the proportion of women in MASTER’s courses remained at 25 percent since 2014.
the Increase is due, according to Elin Kebert on an active effort from the industry common and the authority for higher vocational education.
” We’ve thought through how we market the courses. In the past it has kryllat of pictures of men without the proper protective equipment on construction sites, in marketing and it, we have tried to work it off, ” she says.
A number of projects are focusing on recruiting women to the construction industry and get them out in production and in leadership roles. They are named things like Byggberit, Pepper, Bygglab and Stella.
today, there are barely a handful of courses in the built environment and construction engineering, which has over half of the girls. Malin Hellmér, 26, to view the first year to byggnadsprojektör BOS on Nackademins university of applied sciences in Solna, north of Stockholm. She is one of 33 in a class with 36 per cent of girls.
” We are probably the byggutbildningen that has the most girls because it is a bit more design-focused. BOS-the concept is to digitize the construction industry, drawing in a 3D model instead of that everyone should run around with a stack of papers on the construction. I’m a huge The Sims fan, so it suits me. In addition, we projekteringsdelen, we coordinate and lead the work, ” she says.
the internship practice Malin Hellmér now that byggprojektör on the NCC in Uppsala. But it is not the typical scene of a byggbarack on a site that DN is met by the. The newly built office is more reminiscent of an architect’s office and the yellowish-green reflexkläderna has been replaced with shirt and suit. Malin Hellmér sitting at a rounded computer screen, which covers most of the desktop, and modeling in 3D:
– it is Said to be working in construction so many people think that you are out on the construction site. You need to show that there are many different branches in the construction and that it is not just production, although the production is a big part and that it needed the highest number of women to the production.
On the short time Malin Hellmér has worked in the construction industry, she feels that it has been clear that, despite everything, might be some differences for the roles women typically have in the industry:
– When I have been out on the projekteringsmöten we sit all the disciplines gathered. And then I have directly responded to the representatives for the electricity, ventilation, piping, fire and the professions, it has only been men. When it comes into a girl, she has either been an architect or landscape architect.
” Yes, very happy actually, we can work with both the project management, architecture, design and clean modeling. The advantage of a polytechnic education is that it is not allowed to start if there is not a need. And it is very reassuring for me as a student to know that I will get a job after completion of training.
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